started getting text message memes last week from friends about going stir crazy staying home. I had to think a second to figure out what was different about their lives. They are retired like me, where are they going anyway!
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I know a lot of people around here get up and go to the senior citizen center-buffet lunch for $3 bucks. Includes drink and dessert. If you go early, there’s line dancing lessons and other stuff.
I’ve just always preferred to stay at home. And I’ve never lacked for interesting and time consuming things to do. In fact, I could use a 50 hr. day and I’d still not have time to do all I want or need to do.
> In fact, I could use a 50 hr. day and I’d still not have time to do all I want or need to do.
Same here. I’ve been dividing my time between getting my new raised beds prepared, containers prepared, finishing restocking firewood, cleaning up my woods, and pulling stumps from an area where I want to expand my lawn. We just got our kitchen completed! Yay and crap! I need to get all this done early so if I get re-hired or get another job I’m ready to go.
-SB
Same here. I never have enough hours.
After engaging my brain about why life would be different from my girlfriends it dawned on me, they all live nearer a city. Most are rural but within 20-30 minutes from "metro stuff." We live an hour from a city so that's a big difference. I just never realized everyone else partook in more frequent trips to town. Most of them have a little garden and do some sewing, crochet, quilting etc. But I guess I'd say theirs is more recreational than to sustain the household. They might can a batch of salsa or jelly but nothing to fill a pantry. I truly love my food production/preservation and mostly don't even think of it as work. Except I'm dog tired when I hit the bed.
We got a good rain starting mid-afternoon today. I came in from the garden, cooked supper then fell asleep about sundown while crocheting on a sweater for oldest daughter. Wide awake now. I did not get finished with my garden chores before the rain and now I'm ready for daylight to get back at it. Absolutely no desire to quit my hermit lifestyle. God bless this man I married who doesn't desire leaving home any more than me.